Improvement in cultivators



M. L-ROGERS.

Cultivator.

Patent d Dec. 27.14859.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MoReAN L. ROGERS, OF sPRINe, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATORS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORGAN L. ROGERS, of Spring, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Oorn-Plow and Cultivator Combined; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 represents my cultivator with all its parts adjusted in working order.

A B C are the several parts composing the frame. Of these A and B are of round iron and bent as shown in drawings, on which the blades of the plows 2 and 3 are bolted, as hereinaftel described.

G is an iron bar, made flat along the portion E C, while to one end is a hook, w. The other is bent down like A and B, and to this bent portion another rod, N, is welded or bolted, and also the blade 7 8. Through the upper end of the rod N is an eye turned, and a stick or rung, separating the handles H I, passes through this eye. The front ends of A and B have holes punched through them, and are placed between two plates, E and D, through which holes and plates two bolts, with nuts and screws, pass. (See 4 5, Fig. 1.) This construction forms a hinge, by means of which A and B can be separated to any desired distance apart, while they are retained in their position by a cross-piece, D, bolted to N by screw-bolt m, and also two eyebolts constructed like Fig. 3. (See Sand S, Fig. 1.) Through the eyes of these bolts the rods A and B pass, and when the nuts S and S are turned it draws A and B firmly against D, while at the same time the plates D and E are screwed firmly to C by the S are unscrewed. D- and E are then moved toward the cross-piece D, and the bolts are screwed up as before.

F is an arm with a'wheel, G, on its lower end. In the upper end is a semicircular slot,

F 0,. through which a bolt passes, as also through the ends of the handles H I. By raising this bolt in the slot F O the crookends of. the handles may be raised or lowered at pleasure. A

Now, the plow-blades are attached to the frame as follows, to wit: Two bolts 7 8 pass through them, and also through a flat bar of.

iron, 9, Fig. 2, while the crooked end of the What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The arrangement of the hooked and double curved central bar, 0 N, curved slotted arm F, wheel G, handles H I, sliding plates E D,

frame-pieces A B, and cross-piece D, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and v described.

MORGAN L. ROGERS.

Witnesses: A. B. RIcHMoNn,

GILBERT ROGERS.

bolts 4 5. Now, to widen the distance between the plows 2 and 3, the four bolts 4, 5, S, and 

